Former soldier jailed for 33 years after brutal attack which left one woman dead

A FORMER soldier was jailed for 33 years yesterday after admitting a brutal nine-hour attack which left one woman dead and another severely injured.

Jeremy Green was jailed for 33 years for torturing two women, one of which died[ROSS PARRY]

Jeremy Green tricked his way into a flat shared by estate agents Nicole Waterhouse and Karen Browne because he needed money.

Leeds Crown Court was told he stabbed both women multiple times – cutting their throats and smothering them with pillows, killing Nicole, 32, and leaving Karen, 24, with severe injuries.

Green, who had been dishonourably discharged as a lieutenant in the Yorkshire Regiment, met Miss Browne at a dating event but they had split before he went to their home last October.

Peter Moulson, QC, prosecuting, said Green persuaded Miss Browne to let him in to the flat in York by claiming he had a DVD for her.

Estate agent Nicole Waterhouse was killed in the attack [ROSS PARRY]

Green had attempted to murder Nicole by smothering her and then murdered her with a knife and bottle. He attempted to murder Karen on several occasions

Peter Moulson

Once inside he went berserk with a lock knife, stabbing and slashing the work colleagues.

Mr Moulson told the court Green he had gone to the flat at 10.20am and left with the women’s mobile phones and bank cards at 7pm.

He later withdrew £750 on their bank cards and went shopping at two supermarkets.

Mr Moulson said: “Green had attempted to murder Nicole by smothering her and then murdered her with a knife and bottle. He attempted to murder Karen on several occasions.”

In the flat Green had made around 100 phone calls to other women and when he got home rang some women again to make dates with them.

The emergency services were only alerted when a neighbour heard Miss Browne crying for help. Police broke in and found Nicole’s naked body and Karen close to death. Despite her wounds, she identified her attacker and police arrested Green.

He refused to answer police questions but told a psychiatrist he had intended to burgle the friends’ flat and was carrying a lock knife for self defence because he was a former soldier and was concerned following the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby.

Karen Browne arriving at court yesterday [ROSS PARRY]

Before he was sentenced, Green was confronted by relatives of the dead woman as they addressed the court.

Sister Danielle Waterhouse stared at Green across the courtroom as she told him: “You have destroyed all of our lives and have taken a part of our family that can never be replaced.”

Her father John Waterhouse said: “It is like a nightmare which we can not wake up from. A terrible blackness covers us.”

Miss Browne spent three months in hospital and now has no feeling down the left side of her body.

In all, she had 19 injuries to her face and body, including a stab wound to her spine which left her paralysed and unable to go to her friend’s aid.

Green pleaded guilty to murder and attempted murder and was jailed for 33 years and 198 days.

Judge Peter Collier said: “Throughout the day you engaged in the most appalling and prolonged series of attacks on these two young women. They were completely at your mercy.

“Finally, shortly before 7pm you decide that you must kill these young women. Your final savagery is almost beyond belief.”